Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1887-11-05
ODDS AND ENDS.

According to The Philadelphia Times, Tho
excellent manual training schools of Phi.'-.
dolphin are mainly filled with tho SONS Of
wealthy men. In sending their sons to these
schools, the wealthy men show their go-l
sense; but it will be apity if the sols of poor
men urc thereby deprived Of tho opportuni'J
of attending them.
4 man WHO del 10 England lately b,t
icgacias to che erteEs Of 5000, and stfpn-
lated for brass band ut his funeral ard
banquet to the mourners. By the tin,o the
lost bones Of the banquet had been picked
clean, it was ascertaincd that his whole pos-
sessions consisted of thirty shilling horse
anil e3 worth of coarse hay.
Renders of some Of the London papers fro
quently find a: gbastly red human skeleton
pasted on a conspicuous part Of their paper.
This isnot the work of tic publishers, hut II
IN enterprising quack doctor who takes this
way Of advertising his nostrums
Lamar .Fontaine, who claims the author
ship Of HAll quiet along the Potomac to-
night is q witness III the trial OF Hamilton
for the murder of: Gambrell at Jackson, Miss.
appears snss uni expert pistol practice;
end tits claimed that he is ablei to frea
Der shots into the bunghole Of q barrel roli-
ing downh hill e y
Mr.. Eadweard Muy bridge has just cosl-..
pletel the plates of his work on 3Animal Lo-'
comotion,n with reproductions Of nearly ca
600 instantaneous photographs OF men AMI
animals in almost every imaginable position,
representing part Of tho Investigation Carried
On by the University of Pennsylvania
A Winnipeg photographer hes put himself
In way TO have fine lot of libel suits. l."
recently exhibited case full OF photographs
Of bis debtor., cach being labeled with tbs
name, address and Indebtedness of the person
represented
Oscar Wilde has blossomed out MS q novel
ist Of tho Hood and thunder school. One cf
the London society papers is printing serial
story from bis pom entitled "Lord Arthur Sa-
ville's Crime; Talo of Chiromancy."
Queen Victoria has declared her intention
Of "patronizing" q projected exhibition "f
articles belonging to Mary Queen of Scots,
and has asked that catalogue of tho relies
when ready shall be sent to her.
A London shopkeeper was recently fincd
under the new act of parliament for keeping
two of his girls at work for ninety-sevcn
hours in weck-sixteen hours and half
dny-that is, for six days running.
1t is said that John Greenleaf Whittier md
Robert Purvis, of Philadelphia. orc tho only
original members now living of the An,cri-
can Anti-Slavery society.
A Decatur, Ills, lnan, who has been testing
tho capacity of the sparrow to Withstand the
effects OF poison, gave one bird u grain OF
crystal strychnine without effect.
Unusually low water i'll Lake Constance
has been bringing to light many valuable AMI
interesting relics Of the prehistoric lakc
dwellers.
The personal estate Of the late j.. D. Per-
rims, proprietor of the celebrated Worcester
shire sauce, amounted to nearly So, 100000
The real estate sales of New York for tho
first four months of the year foot up in round
numbers s50,OOo,cO0.
Two hundred aud sixty-tTo pairs OF twins
were born in Chicago during 1880.
It Is estimated that there arc 125, 600 old
soldiers in tho state OF Kansas.